{"id":363760,"date":"2018-06-02T07:58:46","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T06:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-protesters-decry-trumps-family-separation-policy\/"},"modified":"2018-06-02T07:58:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T06:58:46","slug":"presstv-protesters-decry-trumps-family-separation-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-protesters-decry-trumps-family-separation-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Protesters decry Trump\u2019s family separation policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Human rights groups have staged rallies across the US to denounce a policy by the administration of President Donald Trump to separate asylum-seeking Central American immigrant children from their parents.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of people chanted &#8220;families belong together&#8221; in front of the Justice Department on Friday, accusing the White House of violating human rights and traumatizing children for political reasons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is indeed an emergency &#8211; every single day children are ripped apart from their parents and the Trump administration must immediately cease this policy,&#8221; said Jessica Morales, chairwoman of We Belong Together, an immigrant advocacy group.<\/p>\n<p>The protests came after the Trump\u00a0administration confirmed that it had split hundreds of families who crossed the US-Mexican border without immigration documents since October.<\/p>\n<p>Each week, thousands cross the US-Mexico border and immediately turn themselves in to authorities asking for asylum. In April&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/06\/02\/563618\/US-human-rights-groups-protest\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights groups have staged rallies across the US to denounce a policy by the administration of President Donald Trump to separate asylum-seeking Central American immigrant children from their parents. Hundreds of people chanted &#8220;families belong together&#8221; in front of the Justice Department on Friday, accusing the White House of violating human rights and traumatizing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-363760","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}